Revelation 17:10

and they are seven kings; the five have fallen, one is, the other is not yet come (and when he does come, he must remain a short time).

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

In Context

9Here is the mind that has wisdom. the seven heads are seven hills on which the woman is seated;

11And the beast who was, but is not, is himself also an eighth, although he is one of the seven kings, and is on his way to perdition.

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Cross References

Revelation 13:12and he exerts the full authority of the first beast before him, and he makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose death-stroke was healed.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 17:8-14

The Fall of Babylon. ( a. d. 95.) 7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 9… Read the whole commentary →

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